Cara, take off your bra,” Sarah Gonsiorowski bawls into a megaphone in the opening scene of RockCitizen. And as the other dancers look on, Cara Sabin wriggles out of her bra and tosses it onto the catwalk above the stage. “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose,” the group chants as a swirl of black-and-white lights takes over the stage and the audience is invited to tune in, drop out, and spend the next hour reliving a tumultuous era filled with sex, drugs, and social protest.
Guest performer Brian Shaw marched around like the group’s own Timothy Leary, getting in the face of audience members and asking, “Are you uncomfortable yet?” And it was clear that some members of the crowd were squirming at least a little bit. Perhaps it was the subject matter, or perhaps it was because the show’s combination of swirling lights, repetitious chanting, and fluid body movements really did make the whole thing feel like an acid trip. The Seldoms don’t shy from spectacle.
Through 5/15: Thu-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 2 PM, Storefront Theater, 66 E. Randolph, theseldoms.org, $15.
